Author: Piccato, Pablo
Title: City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 2001. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x, 365 pp.. Textual photos & tables.. Slight binding corner bumps. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Context: The Modern City; The Policed City; The Construction of Mexican Criminology; The Practices: Honor & Violent Crime; Violence Against Women; Money, Crime, & Social Reactions to Larceny; The Consequences: The Invention of Rateros; Penal Experience in Mexico City; Conclusions: Crime Contested; Appendix: Statistics of Crime.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Mexico City, Latin America, Social History, Criminology, Urban Crime, Penology Poor, Criminals Law, Poverty Legal